The breadth of the landscape is examined in interviews, photographs, cartoons and novels
Most of our land lies between the wild and the urban: the rural. No bucolic retreat, it’s a fiercely contested realm.
Kate Evans’s Copse (1998) is a fabulous compendium of photos, interviews, articles and cartoons about protesting in the 1980s and 90s. As George Monbiot writes in the introduction: “The direct action campaign against road building in Britain is the most successful revolutionary movement in western Europe in the second half of the 20th century.” Copse was a DIY book for DIY protest, both a precious record and an inspirational manual for the further battles awaiting brave, (mostly) young people.
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